Maternal Mental Health: Mommy Brain?
(WorldNews Health)

Before having a child of my own, I spent 3.5 years working in a home based child abuse prevention program. I would screen new mothers for postpartum depression and help link them to mental health resources, while I was working on my master`s degree in social work to be a therapist myself. I would listen to them talk about “postpartum” when referencing their emotional state after giving birth and constantly heard the phrase, “I have mommy brain” or “I don`t know what`s going on with me, I`m not myself.” Never did I truly understand the weight of these phrases until I gave birth to my daughter earlier this year. When discussing maternal mental health, most people only know to ask about...